Amitus Haldeman, 1850

M. Anjana, K. Rajmohana, D. Vimala & R. Sundararaj, 2016, On a new species of Amitus Haldeman (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) parasitizing whitefly Zaphanera sp. (Aleyrodidae) on Vigna trilobata from India, Halteres 7, pp. 106-111 : 107

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.55316
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6066144
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C6C376-DA76-FFEE-ECA4-22E1C169FC4A
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scientific name	Amitus Haldeman, 1850
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Diagnosis (Modified after Masner and Huggert, 1989):

Body black, short (usually less than 1.5 mm), dorsoventrally flattened; antennal formula 8-10; female antenna with abrupt, compact ovoid clava resulting from the fusion of A8-A10; male antenna with specialized paddle-shaped area on A4; propodeum partly covered with foamy structures; forewings without distinct veins; metasoma short, subsessile; T2 usually with a fan of striae anterolaterally.